Movement and heart rate in the Scandinavian brown bear (Ursus arctos)

International audience Understanding animal movement facilitates better management and conservation. The link between movement and physiology holds clues to the basic drivers of animal behaviours. In bears, heart rate increases with the metabolic rate during the active phase. Their movement and hear...

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Published in:Animal Biotelemetry
Main Authors: Blanchet, Leslie, Fuchs, Boris, M, Støen, Ole-Gunnar, Bergouignan, Audrey, Ordiz, Andrés, Laske, Timothy, M, Arnemo, Jon, M, Evans, Alina, M
Other Authors: Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Département Ecologie, Physiologie et Ethologie (DEPE-IPHC), Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), University of Minnesota Twin Cities (UMN), University of Minnesota System (UMN)
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2019
Subjects:
Distance travelled
GPS positions
Cardiac bio-logger
Seasonal variation
Reproductive status
[SDE]Environmental Sciences
Ursus arctos
Online Access:https://hal.science/hal-02338670
https://hal.science/hal-02338670/document
https://hal.science/hal-02338670/file/s40317-019-0181-7.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-019-0181-7
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Summary:International audience Understanding animal movement facilitates better management and conservation. The link between movement and physiology holds clues to the basic drivers of animal behaviours. In bears, heart rate increases with the metabolic rate during the active phase. Their movement and heart rate change at seasonal and daily scales, and can also depend on environmental factors. Their behaviour is, therefore, flexible in activity patterns with high individual variations. The aim of this study was to establish the relationship between heart rate and distance travelled, and test whether this relationship was influenced by environmental (e.g., time of year and time of day) and biological (e.g., reproductive status, sex, body mass and age of the bears) factors. We analysed data of distance travelled and heart rate of 15 GPS-collared brown bears, both males and females, equipped with cardiac loggers in the south of Sweden in 2014–2017.

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